[Techtalk] How to change Gnome's mimetype handling

[Eeva Järvinen]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:01:06PM -0800, Akkana Peck wrote:
> The standard system mime type database is in /etc/mime.types,
> with applications for each mime type specified in /etc/mailcap.

Oddly enough, /etc/mime.types says:

audio/x-pn-realaudio	      ram rm

which is, AFAIK, completely correct.

/etc/mailcap is almost empty, just a lines for audio/mod, image,
application/msword, application/pdf, application/postscript, text/html
and application/x-java-jnlp-file, but that's all, so apparently
mailcap is being phased out, and it is replaced by something
Gnome-specific.  

It seems to me that the answer is lurking somewhere in Gnome's
configuration, but there's so much of the stuff I can't make neither
head nor tail out of it -- I'm not a Gnome developer, even though I
consider myself computer-literate.  Heck, I admin, configure and
specify content management systems fora living!  This can't be that
hard once I find out where to start, but I wouldn't want to start
reading C source or getting familiar with how Gnome's vfs works
internally: it just seems so unnecessary.  I mean, I can read and
write C and numerous other computer languages, but what's the point?


Eeva